After a week of coding finally have my site working across all browsers and mobile devices. I made the mistake of not viewing in IE8 and IE 7 until now.
Can anyone share some steps in resolving IE7-8 compatibility issues when using jQuery and CSS?
What are some first steps to try?
If a site isn’t too complex does it make sense to do server side detection and serve up an IE only site?
Depends on what problems you are running into. There are a lot of resources, such as PositionIsEverything or HasLayout, on the web complaining about & explaining different IE bugs (peekaboo, double margin etc).
It is useful to use a tool such as IETester to see your page on actual IE versions.